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This book investigates the popularity and success of contemporary women performers in bullfighting culture, which has been framed by a discourse of 'traditionalist' masculinity. This examination of the changing situation of women in the bullfighting world is used to explore the ways in which gender is represented, enacted and negotiated in contemporary Spain.

 

The bullfight in the 1990s is in an ambiguous position: it is a 'traditional' performance in a changing consumer society. In order to survive, it needs to adapt itself to a wider social context and, in particular, to international media coverage. It is in this context that the current success of women performers is located. However, women performers are a contested phenomenon in the bullfighting world: there is heated debate over their acceptability, much of which focuses on the body. Moreover, the entry of women into the bullfight questions existing definitions of the sport's ritual structure and of gender relations in Spain.

 

Thoroughly researched and compelling to read, Women and Bullfighting addresses these issues and argues that existing traditionalist approaches to gender, bullfighting and ritual in Spain need to be revised in order to locate women bullfighters in the context of a richly varied culture which is increasingly affected by the media and contemporary patterns of consumption.

 

This provocative book will be of interest to researchers and students of anthropology, gender studies, sociology, cultural studies, media studies and Spanish studies. (Verlagstext)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Prologue: Constructing femininity and inventing tradition | 1

 

 

Introduction: A world of bullfighting | 9

 

 

Part 1: Rethinking gender and bullfighting in Andalusia

 

1 Slaying anthropology's goat: men, women and reputation in Andalusia | 29

 

4Gender, bullfighting and anthropology: Theorising women bullfighters | 47

 

 

Part 2: Detras de la Barrera?

Women off stage and women creeping out from behind the scenes

 

3Wife, seductress, mother and the beautiful spectator: Representations of femininities and tradition | 61

 

4Active Aficonadas: A gendered lens on a photographic ritual | 85

 

 

Part 3: Women performers: From the public arena to a domestic screen

 

5Gender, power and access to the arena: Media, experience and representations of self | 106

 

6Toreras and trajes: Dressing up in the names of history | 129

 

7Breasts in the bullring: Female physiology, women bullfighters and competing femininities | 153

 

8The commodification of ritual: Women performers and media events | 171

 

 

Part 4: Conclusions

 

9Modern femininities and consuming traditions | 197

 

 

Appendix: questions of terminology and translation | 205

 

Bibliography | 209

 

Index | 221